Candice Lin
Biography
Candice Lin is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, drawing, video, and living materials and processes, such as mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains. Her work deals with the politics of representation and issues of race, gender, and sexuality through histories of colonialism and diaspora.
Lin has had recent solo exhibitions at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2024); Canal Projects, New York (2023); Spike Island, Bristol, UK (2022); the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge (2022), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2021); Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2021); and Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (2020). Lin’s work was included in the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams (2022), Prospect.5 Triennial Yesterday We Said Tomorrow (2022), and both the 13th and 14th Gwangju Biennales (2021, 2023). She is the recipient of the 2024 Ruth Award, the 2023 Arnoldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize, a 2022 Gold Art Prize, and a 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, among numerous other recognitions. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Walker Art Center.
Candice Lin lives and works in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California Los Angeles.
Lin has had recent solo exhibitions at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2024); Canal Projects, New York (2023); Spike Island, Bristol, UK (2022); the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge (2022), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2021); Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (2021); and Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (2020). Lin’s work was included in the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams (2022), Prospect.5 Triennial Yesterday We Said Tomorrow (2022), and both the 13th and 14th Gwangju Biennales (2021, 2023). She is the recipient of the 2024 Ruth Award, the 2023 Arnoldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize, a 2022 Gold Art Prize, and a 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, among numerous other recognitions. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Walker Art Center.
Candice Lin lives and works in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of California Los Angeles.
Works
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Candelabra, 2023
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Learning (Lithium Sex Demon Scene 3), 2023
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Castration Is Still Possible, 2023
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Xternesta, 2022
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Piss Protection Demon, 2022
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Sorting the Rats, 2020
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Gonads Vessel (Striped Cat Demon), 2020
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Future Sarcophagus, 2020
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Chinatown, San Francisco, 1907, 2020
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Witness (Yellow Version), 2019
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Minoritarian Medicine, 2019
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On Being Human (The slow erosion of a hard white body), 2018
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Map to an Unknown Sea, 2018
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Fouquieria splendens, 2018
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Memory (Study #2), 2016
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Recipe for Spontaneous Generation: Baby Mice, 2015
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Metamorphosis in space, 2013
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Failed Matriarchy, 2009
Installation Views
Exhibitions
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Durian on the Skin
Curated by Gan Uyeda September 17 - October 22, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesAnn Greene Kelly Brach Tiller Candice Lin Danica Lundy David Douard Gabriel Mills Isaac Soh Fujita Howell Joeun Kim Aatchim Kelly Akashi...Read more -
The Future in Present Tense
Group Exhibition May 7 - June 5, 2021 391 Grand St., New YorkKelly Akashi Neïl Beloufa Candice Lin Candice Lin & P. Staff Patrick Jackson Christine Sun Kim Cassi Namoda Em Rooney François Ghebaly is proud to announce the opening of a...Read more -
Materia Medica
Curated by Kelly Akashi July 22 - September 4, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesAnn Craven Becca Mann Candice Lin Catalina Ouyang Diane Severin Nguyen Evelyn Statsinger Hugh Hayden Janis Miltenberger Jessie Homer French Kay Hofmann Max Hooper Schneider Nancy Youdelman Rindon Johnson ...Read more -
Bad Peach
Group Exhibition August 10 - September 7, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesKelly Akashi Sayre Gomez Haroon Mirza Davide Balula Channa Horwitz Cassi Namoda Dan Bayles Patrick Jackson Eli Ping Neïl Beloufa Christine Sun Kim Umar Rashid Meriem Bennani Mike Kuchar Kathleen...Read more -
Candice Lin
Meaningless Squiggles May 11 - June 16, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesFrançois Ghebaly is proud to present Meaningless Squiggles , Candice Lin’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition takes a panoramic view of Lin’s recent projects, drawing on her...Read more -
Liquid Dreams
Group Exhibition July 13 - August 10, 2018 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesKelly Akashi Farah Atassi Davide Balula Genesis Belanger Neïl Beloufa Lila de Magalhaes Dorian Gaudin Sayre Gomez Patrick Jackson Koak Joel Kyack Mike Kuchar Candice Lin Gina Osterloh Philip Pearlstein...Read more -
Candice Lin
You are a spacious fluid sac September 12 - October 24, 2015 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los AngelesAnd so it begins... Bacteria (the male-killing variety) co-evolving, controlling in new ways Denaturalized, disrupted, dissimilar Enter eukaryotic cells Fluid: Sacs Fluid: Senses of Self Generation (the spontaneous kind) Genetic...Read more -
Candice Lin
It Makes the Patient See Pictures September 8 - October 27, 2012 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los AngelesFrançois Ghebaly Gallery is pleased to announce Candice Lin’s third solo exhibition, It Makes the Patient See Pictures. For this exhibition, Lin explores the movement of power through material objects....Read more -
Candice Lin
The Sexual Life of Savages April 4 - May 16, 2009 932 Chung King Road., Los Angeles, CA
Press
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Oh My Flesh Lump. ‘The Animal Husband’ by Candice Lin at Talbot Rice Gallery
Elvira García, Afterall, June 5, 2024 -
Candice Lin: The Animal Husband
Helena Vilalta, Burlington Contemporay, May 24, 2024 -
When a Job Becomes a Literal Hell
Beatrice Loayza, The New York Times, February 23, 2024 -
Hindley Wang on Candice Lin
Hindley Wang, The Brooklyn Rail, November 1, 2023 -
Candice Lin’s “Lithium Sex Demons in the Factory”
Jonathan Griffin, e-flux, October 27, 2023 -
Candice Lin Summons Lithium Factory Sex Demons in New York
Michael Irwin, Ocula, September 21, 2023 -
Candice Lin’s Infected Mythologies
Rachel M. Tang, Art Review, April 13, 2023 -
Candice Lin creates a beast-filled world that riffs on colonialism — and internet cats
Carolina A. Miranda, The Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2022 -
An Artist’s Multi-Species Mythology, Inspired by Her Cat
Sasha Cordingley, Hyperallergic, April 6, 2022 -
Cochineal, Tobacco and Piss: Candice Lin
Robert Leckie, Mousse Magazine, June 6, 2019
Inquiry